Tuesday, January 28, 2014

A massive career development opportunity

Despite releasing my book I had a problem (fortunately it wasn’t
selling the book). You see I had originally written over 600 pages of
content for my book but the market was saying that people wouldn’t buy a 600 page book.

So
I trimmed my book down to 128 pages and even included a number of
pictures to help the reader get from cover to cover. This meant that I
had just under 500 pages of high quality content that hadn’t been used. Why not create an online course to support the book?

Did
a better way exist to share my knowledge? At the time I couldn’t think
of one.

My work had seen me bridge the gap between university student
development programs and corporate staff development programs. I was
addressing educational needs about what to actually do in the
real world that wasn’t being addressed at university. Time and again
students (from both undergraduate and postgraduate programs) and
graduate program employees would tell me, “Gary, we just don’t get
taught this information at university. I know what you are teaching
isn’t rocket science, but I didn’t know about it before and I wish I
did. At least I’ve learned it now and can use this information about
developing my employability skills to my advantage.”

As
my work evolved into Executive Coaching roles, even these people would
tell me how they found the material enlightening and helpful in their
roles, even though I hadn’t written the book or designed my course for
them.

I’ve
now been delivering these programs for over eight years in university
faculties and schools as broad as business, law, education, pharmacy and
even higher degree by research programs. Universities don’t keep
asking people who are teaching non-academic programs to come back year
after year if the program isn’t any good and isn’t getting outstanding
feedback from students.

At the start of 2013 I launched the Yes For Success Platform and included a new version of my book’s online course on that platform, except this time I gave it a makeover and called it Yes For Career Success. The course now includes 21 Modules, the extra five modules all being designed to help folk improve their formal leadership skills
either at work or outside of work. You see, leadership is one of those
skills you can’t learn by theory alone, you must do it. So I show people
how they can develop their leadership outside of the work
environment if necessary so that they can advance their career over
time. I provide the tools so that you can consciously rather than unconsciously develop your skills. Conscious skill develop outstrips unconscious skill development any day of the week!

Those
of you who know me personally will know that I genuinely want to help
people to be the best that they can be. I am literally putting my money
where my mouth is to back up that statement. For less than the
price of two coffees I am providing as many people as possible
(including you of course) with the opportunity to get access to the
entire 21 Modules of the Yes For Career Success Program for under $10 for a full 12 months.

The content on Systems Thinking
alone is worth many times your fee to get access to the program. If you
aren’t aware, Systems Thinking is a critical leadership skill that
despite being identified by the Australian Government, the Business
Council of Australia and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
as an essential skill for effective leadership, is not being
taught in any academic programs of Australia’s Group of Eight
Universities, arguably the top universities in Australia.

This
means that my program is providing you with an opportunity to master
critical skills that aren’t being taught anywhere else. Clearly this
gives you a significant advantage over your competition.

Finally,
too many people leave the responsibility for their development to
someone else. Please don’t be like them. Take control of your career and
learn how to master the employability skills that will separate you
from the rest and enable you to have the career you desire.

If you have any questions or comments about the program, please leave a comment below.

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